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Beloved Doll (2004)
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The
Beauty of War (2003)
A collection of three short works co-devised
and performed by 10 members of youth theatre groups
from Makhampom’s long-term community theatre
workshop programs. The pieces applied a highly
physical theatre form onto simple narratives,
incorporating characteristic folk aesthetic elements
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Noh
Mur
Ay (2002)
This work, based on a Pakakyaw folk tale,
incorporated contemporary social themes, indigenous
music and symbolic design with a mixed cast of young
people from the Makhampom program in Mae Hong Son and
Makhampom performers.
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Liew
Lang, Lae Nah Tulong,
Tula
(To Look Back, To Look Forward, October) (2001)
The
story revolves around the lives of
a village family, struggling under the economic
pressures of the modernization, and drawn into the
rapid social upheavals of the 1970s, in the October 6
massacre. It is presented in a cautionary way,
suggesting that the activists of that time must
recognize their mistakes so as not to repeat them
today.
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Likay
Apiwat (Changing the Sky, Changing the Earth) (2001)
From local communities to minor members of the royal
family, from NGO workers to likay artists, from
drama students to national artists, from friends of
Makhampom to progressive members of Bangkok’s middle
class, from pro-democracy activists to the members of
the political elite.
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Akaoni
(2000)
Thai-Japanese collaboration
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Cry
of
Asia
II (1998)
Asian Performance Collaboration on Poverty &
Cultural Issues
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Malai
Mongkol (1997)
The narrative journey of Pra
Malai with the fictional life and death story of
two teenagers, Mala and
Mali
. The production was founded firstly on the premise of
advocating the social condition of “living together
happily with people with AIDS” and secondly to
“restage an old art-form, even if for a different
function”.
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Big
Wind (1994/95)
Performed in the musical style of the Mime Troupe, the
production received mixed responses from audiences and
participants and was continuously facing hurdles with
visa restrictions, customs seizures, and group
dynamics.
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Cao
Lo Lo Lum (1995-96)
Cao Lo Lo Lum was based on the classical text Lilit
Pra Lo, from the north of
Thailand
, the themes of obsession, manipulation and utopianism
were reinterpreted in terms of the problems of drug
addiction.
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 | Canthakorup…….Co
(Sex) Before Time (1995)
A tale of the risks of
unprotected sex and challenging the encultured
practice of young men having their first sexual
experience with a prostitute. It was performed in a
hip hop theatre style, drawing on the epic Buddhist
tale of Canthakorup, to teenagers in ninety-four
schools across
Thailand
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Phitsukarn
Er
(Daeng Zwischen Zwei Welten/Daeng Between Two Worlds) (1993-94)
A story of the life
journey of a child prostitute ‘Daeng’, from rural
poverty, to urban capitalist society, and into the
social whirlpool of industrialization, consumerism,
the sexual economy, and the social response to
HIV/AIDS. Performed in
Thailand
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Germany
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England
, and at the Edinburgh Festival in a style combining
physical theatre, folk motifs, and classical Thai
dance.
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